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Key Indicators Signal a Positive Shift in the Economic Landscape
Something has changed these last few weeks. Yesterday I was struck by how many indicators have suddenly broken trend over the last few months. It appears that the economic landscape has shifted. Last week, I mentioned that outstanding loans at U.S. commercial banks have flattened for the first time...
Battle of The Online Brokerages !!!!
So this is just a forum to help decide which online broker is the best, i've done some research have personally decided TradeKing is the way to go, but I'm looking for some insight into your opinions and your reasons, any horror stories? amazing successes? which ones offer the best software and...
Traders Train vs. Personal Investing
Where can monkeys talk about personal investing? I feel like it overlaps with the Traders Train forum but should be on its own... I recently (since 11/2009) have been putting a lot of money into the market and i'd love for a place to talk with other amateur investors about ideas, tips, strategy,...
Investing in Preferreds
Has anyone on here invested in preferred stocks before? I am not comfortable investing in corporate fixed income next year due to potential rate hikes. However, I am not convinced the US and the world economies are out of the woods yet. So I'm not bullish on equities. I am curious to see how the...
Selling my stock picking algorithm to hedge funds/investment firms. Where do I start?
I'm a C++ programmer and my friend and I recently made a nice little trading strategy that was able to gain 5000% over a simulated trading period and in another experiment, turned $5000 into $100,000. I know hedge funds get hit with scores of these things daily but we've both back-tested our...
Stock Picking Monkey App for iPhone
Looks like this new Stock Picking Monkey app for iPhone will but a few people in Equity Research out of work: http://bit.ly/oHf89
Historical Stock Prices???
I was told to calculate the cost basis for a client's portfolio which was positioned at different intervals between 1970 and 2000. First of all, being new to this stuff, what price should I use to calculate the cost basis for a certain stock; the split adjusted price or the regular price? At first I...
Investment Challenge Stock Picks
So I'm participating in an Investment Challenge at my school and we've been given $100,000 to invest in an equities only portfolio that will be tracked over a 30-day period starting on Monday. Below I've listed what we've chosen for our picks and I was just curious as to what you guys think about...
I CHALLENGE YOU
Post the value of your portolio here on Dec5,2008. Make an update on Jan1,2008, and every 6months thereafter. See who wins? you can also post what stocks(or cd, mutual fund,etc) u have in yr portfolio in a separate post, but you dont have to. if you say that your portfolio has gone up 100% but it...
PRIVATE PORTFOLIO HELP
Hey, so i am in the process of opening one. It takes a few days to verify my bank account using ach. so ive been researching stocks a lot lately. and it seems to me that any high school kid could do as well as the most seasoned investor. i mean you can read the companies' financial statements on...
Professional Stock Portfolio Tracking Programs? Thanks!
Who said bankers can't be stock-pickers? Looking for a professional program that can track investments to various indexes across different time periods and ouput them to excel / some friendly graphical format. The more powerful and functionality, the better. Anyone have any suggestions, really...
Stock Picks in this market???
While I know there are plenty of scrubs on this site (I myself could be considered one of them to an extent), I think there is also a wealth of knowledge out there as well. With the stock markets getting crushed overall the past few weeks, there must be some very very fundamentally undervalued...
If these banks get bought out by investors.. not government?
So amid all the hysteria going on right now with banks going under and firesale of assets and such, I was wondering IF banks like Wachovia and Washington Mutual get bought out by say JP Morgan , (apparently jim cramer thinks jp morgan should buy WM) hypothetically, would WM shares jump up? If so,...
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